Apparel garment



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warren STATES IWALDEMAR KOPS, on NEW YORK, N. Y., nssmnonro KOPS BROS.Inc, OF NEW N. Y., A conronarr'on OF nEW YORK. V

PA-rear orrics.

YORK,

ArrAnEL GARMENT.

Application filed June 11,

sets in which these devices have been employed are open back corsets inwhich the adjustment of the garment to position on the body of thewearer has been effected by lacing the garment at the back thereof. Inthis ad ustment of the corset garments as so constructed it is necessaryfor those portions of the garment overlying the back of the body belowthe waistline and surrounding the buttocks andthighs of the wearer tofirst assume a fixed position and then the selfreducing straps and thetension straps are adjusted to place. This obviously results in thenecessity of the production of a relatively large number of types ofthese garments in order to properly comply with the conditions whichmust necessarily be met in individual cases in supplying these'garmentsas to cause the tension straps and self-reducing straps to, assume theirproper places to perform their intended functions these straps must beplaced, so as to assume relatively different positions in difierentgarments.

The object of my present invention is to overcome this difficulty andinconvenience in supplying and fitting garments in individual casesmaking it unnecessary tomake and carry so many different types ofgarments inasmuch as the garment made in accordance with my inventionmay be shifted to a greater or lesser extent after the'same is placed onthe body in order to bring the tension straps and self-reducing strapsto their required positions to enable them to perform their intendedfunctions properly. In carrying out the invention the same isincorporated in a closed back garment in which there are elasticsections preferably placed in positions forward of the aXillar line ofthe garment and in the outer front portions of the garment self-reducingstraps are employed and on the inner side of the garment and between theself-reducing straps and the outer portion of the front of the garmentabdominal tension straps are employed whereby, as will be hereinaftermore par- ,the wearer.

1924. Serial No. 719,293.

ticularly described, the self-reducing straps coacting with the elasticsections of the garment reduce and confine the abdominal sections of thebody of the wearer and the tension straps which in part at least arealso preferably made of elastic material coacting with the elasticsections of the garment produce a double yielding effect in supportingthe abdomen of the wearer and the adjacent portions of these tension andself-reducing straps coact with one anotherin producing the functionsintended to be performed by each strap separately.

In the drawing: I

Fig. 1 is a perspective View illustrating the use ofthe apparel garmentmade in accordance with my present invention.

1 Fig. 2 is plan looking at the garment from the inside thereof and in aflattened position, and

Fig. 3 is a section on line 83, Fig. 2.

By reference to the drawing, it will be seen that the. apparel garmentmade in accordance with this invention preferably comprises frontsections 10 and 11 fitted with the usual front steels 12 and 13 to whichthere are connected the customary clasps for connecting the front edgesof the garment for securing the same in position on the body of Thefront sections of the garment also include depending skirt membersas'indicatedat 14 and 15. The skirt member 14 immediately below thefront steel 12 may be provided with a hook16 and the forward edge of theskirt section immediately below the front steel 13 may be fitted with aneye member 17 to beengaged by the hook 16, and the lower frontv portionsof these skirt sections as illustrated are pro- Videdwith series ofeyelets 18 and 19 through which is threaded a lace as indicated in Fig.1 .of the'drawing for suitably connecting the front portions of garment.

' The front sectlons of the garment also inthe skirt members of theclude elastic fabric members 20 and 21 which extend from the'upper tothe lower edges of the garment. The back section of the gar-- ment isindicated at 22 and as illustrated the front sections of the garment maybe fitted with suitable stays 23 and 24cand' the back section of thegarment with suitable stays 25 and 26.

The front sections of the garment are similarly constructed and both ofthem are provided with self-reducingstraps and also with abdominaltension straps. The selireduc-ingstrap in the right hand side of thegarment is indicated at 27. At the forward end this self-reducing strapis connected adjacent the lower end of the front steel 12 by a line ofstitching indicated at 28. The opposite or rearward edge oftheself-reducing strap 27 is connected to thetront section along theadjacent edge of the elastic mcnr ber 20 by a line of stitchingindicatedat 29. The upper edge of the self-reducing strap is; connectedto the front memberclasp I engaging r mounted.

Inthis front portion of tliegarnie itI also employ anatsdominar tensionstrap.

As illustrated this ispreferablyinade of an inelastic sectrmrsi and an elas'ti'c sseaonss, the parts of which are connected to one another alongthe line indicated at The inelastic section 34; or this tension strap isconnected along one edge to the ad ac'ent edge of the back section ofthegarment as indicatedfat 37fi and theft'orw'ard endot theelasticsection85 of the tension strap-Esconnected to the forward part orthe front section as indicated at 38, this connection being'siibstantially along' same line of "stitching "2 8 which secures the"for tfard end of "the self-reducin strap in place infthe garinent.Immediately forward of the elast1cine1nber '20 and underlyingtheadjacent portion of the rearward end otthe self-reducing strap anopening 339 is 'p ro idedih the front memberftor the passage of atesiensaapso that the maj or part of the inelastic "section 34 of "tliefltension strap underlies the elastic memsection passes through the opening39;while the elastic section of the tension strap lies 2 between theselt-redncing' strap "and the "undi lying adjacent por ion or the fronttang nts sneer e amers similar weeart enwaredeserted; Inthe left bananasor the"gaiiiientthe*seltkreducing' strap is indicated at 40. Theterminals ""61 thd'selfre'chbingi strapis secured in the mag haterstachrag ir and the rearward end along a line-of stitching 42,

while the upper edge of the self-reducing strap is connected to thefront section of the garment along a line of stitching'as indicated at43; A hose supporter strap '44 m is connected at one end to the loweredge of the skirt l5 as indicated at 45 while the 0pposite endof thishose supporter strapis connected to' the'lower extremity of theexdicated at 46. The hose supporterstrap 44 is the counterpart of thehose supporter strap 31. In this forward portion of the garment theabdominal tension strap also comprises an inelastic section 47 and anelastlc section 48 connected along their ad acent edges by alinefindlcated at 49. One

edge of the inelastic section 47 ofthe tension strap is connected to thegarment along a line of stitching 50 which also preferably connects therearward edge of the elastic member 21 to the adjacentportion of theclosed back member of the garment. The forward edge of the elasticsection 48 of this tension strap is connected to the forward portion ofthe garment along a line indicated at 51. This is preferably coincident.

with the line of stitching 41 by which the forward edge of theself-reducing strap 40 isconnected in the front section of the gar:

"menti The abdominal tension strap inthis sect'ionpf the garment extendsthrough an opening; 52 provided therefor immediate] forward"oftheelastio member 21 and be neatlithe rearward edge of the seltreducing loostrap 40 sothat the inelastic-section 47 of thistension'strap underliesaportion of the elastic; member 21 and extends through the opening52*whileth; elastic sectionbf the tensio strap underlies theself-rediicing 10s strap anchextends between the same and the adjacentunderlying portion of the front "sectionof'thegarment. W

fIIi theb'ack member'ofthe garment I may which are securedj in similarpositions "on opposite sides ofthe central lirre of the back niemberalong lines of" stitching 55 and"56 substantially at the lower en'tl "of"the body "portion ropel-E of the garment sothat these hose supporterstraps 53 and l 54 overlie ii the supporters as indicated 59 and 605*The Flower front portions of the garment ilirajy 'eiastie members of;the garment which exd froin the upper to' the lower "edges hereof "andjaref prefer Iy Piaced tanned-t may forward ofthe aitillai" lines orthe: gar maria the garment after-tang ltrc'ed on the t-anywa tsretailshifted ta the 'profiser "1130 tension of the'self-reducing strap40 as in- 75 will function to mold the flesh of the wearer to thedesired form and the tension straps to support the lower portions of theabdomen, and furthermore that due to the elastic sections of the garmentand also to the elastic sections of the tension straps there will be adouble yielding effect produced in the support of the lower portion ofthe abdomen.

I claim as my invention:

1. In a corset, a closed back member, elastic side members, frontmembers, means for connecting the edges of the front members forsecuring the corset in position on the body, tension straps eachconnected at its forward end adjacent the forward edge of a front memberextending over the outer surface of the said front member and passingthrough a slit provided therefor with the inner end portion thereofunderlying the adjacent portion of the corresponding elastic side memberand attached at its inner end to the adjacent edge of the backmemher,and self reducing straps each connected to a front member and adapted tooverlie the portion of the tension strap extending across the said frontmember and to oooperate therewith by the tension applied thereto inshaping and supporting the abdomen of the wearer. I

2. In a corset, a closed back member, e1astic side members extendingfrom the upper to the lower edges of the garment, front members, frontsteel sections secured in the edges of the front members and adapted forfixing the garment in position on the wearer,

an inelastic self reducing strap associated with each front member,being connected at its forward edge adjacent the free edge of the frontmember and at its rearward edge adjacent the rearward edge of the frontmember and having a downwardly, extending portion free from the frontmember, and tension straps each associated with a front member and theself reducing strap associated therewith,each tension strap comprising aforward elastic section connected at its forward end to the front membera djacent the forward edge thereof and lying between the front memberand its self reducing strap, and a rearward inelastic sectiofi extendingthrough a slit in the front member adjacent the rearward end thereof andunderlying the adjacent portion of the corresponding elastic side memberand at its rearward edge connected to the adjacent edge of the backmember, the said self reducing straps and tension straps being adaptedto cooperate with each other and with the front sections of the garmentto shape and support the abdomen of the wearer and to obviate thewrinkling of the garment in the parts in which these members' areplaced.

Signed by me this 6th day of June, 1924.

, WALDEMAR KOPS.

